Overview

Textual is the world’s most popular application for interacting with Internet Relay Chat (IRC) chatrooms on OS X.

First appearing in 2010, Textual has since evolved and matured into the top IRC client for OS X; relied on and trusted by thousands of people.

Beautiful Interface

• Textual includes two elegantly designed dark and light variants of the user interface which have been refined all the way down to the very last pixel.

Powerful

• Textual supports very powerful modern technologies such as native IPv6, the latest IRCv3 specifications, client-side certificate authentication, and much, much more in an easy to navigate, clutter free environment.

Privacy is valued

• Textual protects your privacy by leveraging widely accepted, proven technologies such as Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) to ensure that the only people reading your conversations are those that you intend to.

Customizable

• Textual takes customization to the next level with styles created using well documented, open web standards in addition to addons built using a multitude of programming languages such as AppleScript, Objective-C, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, Shell, and Swift.

Textual also includes

Address Book for tracking when friends are online & offline

Autocompletion for nicknames, commands, and channels

Bold, color, italic, and underline text formatting

Built in support for converting text emoticons to emojis

Growl and native Notification Center support

Inline media embedding (Show images inline with chat)

Inline nickname colorization

Perchannel notification controls

Powerful ZNC integration for power users

Powerful filters that can perform commands in response to input

Powerful, customizable, rulebased ignore matching

Quick navigation using fuzzy searching

Rich array of keyboard shortcuts

SOCKS4, SOCKS5, and HTTP proxy support (with or without SSL)

Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)

Support for sending selfsigned certificates for authentication

Support for validating and specifying trust for untrusted certificates

Viewing multiple channels at the same time

iCloud support for syncing connections and preferences

…and much, much more!

See https://www.codeux.com/ for more information

What’s New in Textual 7.0.5

[NEW] Added preference to Interface section of Preference that allows multiple channels to be viewed left to right, instead of top to bottom.

[FIXED] Fixed inability to read or write preferences on macOS High Sierra. [FIXED] Fixed trial expired message appearing even after Textual was purchased.